Sunday, June 24, 2007

ABC's Mediawatch got help from radical Islam site.

Media: Someone should lose their job over this but I doubt it will happen. Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Media Watch producer Tim Palmer did a disingenuous hit job over some comments left on newspapers and Tim Blair's site last week. Come to find out that the reason they found these comments which they passed off as being indicative of all commentators is that members of a radical Islamic website passed the cherry picked comments along. A Media Watch moderator say they did the research.

Media Watch did not call for anything to be banned. It raised the issue of the enormous difference between what is tolertaed in print and online by some newspapers and similar differences between different newspapers websites. It also outlined what laws currently pertain to this kind of publishing. The examples selected were those we could find. Similar hate posts against other groups would have been considered. We didn't find them on these sites, but would welcome submissions from viewers if they have them


I can see why they wouldn't acknowledge where the comments came from given the messages found on that website.

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